Students in public schools in Lagos State are to be provided with free textbooks on core subjects at the beginning of the next academic session in September.
Humanitarian intervention' has little to show for its brief appearance on the international stage. It arrived too late for Rwanda, gestured helplessly at Bosnia and, at last, in 2003, it was discovered in the arms of Shock and Awe, where
New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former
Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred
PEN have issued their report Failing to Deliver: An Olympic-Year Report Card on Free Expression in China. No surprise: they don't think the Chinese have lived up to their promises.
